In his statement of 19th July on Phase 2 of the Humanitarian Reset, Tom Fletcher, the UN’s Emergency Response Coordinator, promised a new approach to humanitarianism that is ‘locally led and globally supported’. ‘Locally led’ suggests that decisions are made with people and their structures on the ground. That’s very different from where we are today. The term ‘globally supported’ indicates a commitment to spending the major proportion of what money is available (and we know it is a lot less) in partnership with local structures. But what does it mean in practice?
